| Challenge: | Recent adoption of LLM-based assistants has led to premature assumptions about their reliability and general capability. |
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| Outcome: | The proposed evaluations are based on a small-scale study to assess the feasibility of automated process evaluation, present a compliance score, analyse use cases of bad and good behaviours, and offer recommendations for more holistic evaluation. |
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